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• It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

  Goldie

  Laughter, Children, Color

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• A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Women, Thinking

  Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Character, Mind, May

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.

  Fred Hoyle

  Differences, Long, Today

  "Lifecloud: The Origin of Life in the Universe". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle (p. 15), 1978.

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• The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

  William James

  Mystical Experiences, Natural, Significance

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• Let all your preaching be in the most simple and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself is made. If I, in my preaching, should have regard to Philip Melancthon and other learned doctors, then should I do but little good. I preach in the simplest manner to the unskillful, and that giveth content to all. Hebrew, Greek and Latin I spare until we learned ones come together.

  Martin Luther

  Latin, Simple, Doctors

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• Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

  Edward Everett

  Truth, Philosophy, Discovery

  Edward Everett (1840). “Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection from His Orations and Other Discourses”, p.228

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• Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Scene, Description, Genuine

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.870, Delphi Classics

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• The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

  Agatha Christie

  Explanation

  Agatha Christie “Annotated The Mysterious Affairs at Styles with English Grammar Exercises: by Agatha Christie (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Mean, Gay, Expression

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Challenges

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree.

  Ken Caldeira

  Tree, Plant, Carbon

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Men, Thrones

  John Ruskin (1912). “The fall”

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• I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Night, Forever

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• The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Truth, Experience, Firsts

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• Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

  Graham Cooke

  Prayer, Asking, Want

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• The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Pluralism Is, Political

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.104, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien life-forms, and protect it from deterioration, then we must either allow Nature to rule or, if we wish to intervene, we must first acquaint ourselves with the simplest principles of life.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Wish, Principles, Deterioration

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.15, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Begin with the simplest examples.

  David Hilbert

  Example

  "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

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• Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Technology, Impossible, Mathematics

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 222), 1991.

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• Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Taken, Next Steps

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy.

  J. M. DeMatteis

  Compassion, Simple, Sea

  "Mercy". Book by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Johnson, 1993.

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• The simplest case, where one is informed that a cat is black because it is black, may be harmless, though irritating and useless; but the actual cases [in statements of evolutionary theory] are always harder to detect than this, and may darken counsel for a long time.

  Norman Macbeth

  Cat, Long, Black

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• Even the clearest localization of pain in one area may, in fact, be originating from a distant area .... The reference of pain implies the existence of convergence of inputs within the spinal cord. This leads to the necessary involvement in central neural circuits in the simplest of peripheral disorders. It also leads to the possibility that the basic disorder is entirely central.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, May, Input

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